Discount Department Stores · Illinois

0837 - Melrose Park

Melrose Park, IL · ~201 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0837 - Melrose Park runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

0837 - Melrose Park: 4.3 TCR = 126% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0837 - Melrose Park safety composite

0837 - Melrose Park scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2019→2024

0837 - Melrose Park injury rate improved

0837 - Melrose Park's TCR fell 2.8 from 4.5 in 2019 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.5 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Melrose Park, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 126% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #129/220
  • PHOTO 2106 - Fitchburg
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2106 - Fitchburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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0837 - Melrose Park in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 0837 - Melrose Park averages 4.3 TCR (126% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

0837 - Melrose Park TCR series: 2019=4.5 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 0837 - Melrose Park falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #129 safest of 220 Discount Department Stores employers in Illinois.

0837 - Melrose Park (201 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0837 - Melrose Park
0837 - Melrose Park (201 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0837 - Melrose Park has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2023 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2022 6.5 4.1 7 1 0
2021 6.1 6.1 7 1 0
2019 4.5 3.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IL · Melrose Park

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 96 employers in Melrose Park, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 2106 - Fitchburg 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #0334 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2276 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1281 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - CDOT, Main 2 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winpak Heat Seal Corporation 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flex-N-Gate Plastics 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2967-IL192 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jewel Distribution DC 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-06651 FAC-06651-MELROSE PARK-IL 1,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gottlieb Memorial Hospital 923 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC - Ruby Street Plant 714 FTE
NAT-TCR 2106 - Fitchburg 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR John L. Carter Sprinkler Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagner College Hawks 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Coilplus, Inc. Ohio Division - Piqua 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0684 - Woodlands 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0151 - Knoxville West 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2055 - Hattiesburg 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2102 - Central Islip 201 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.